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Deflating security: Biden sells federal helium reserve, threatens us industries… National security on the line as critical element supply diminishes. In a surprising turn of events, the U.S. government has auctioned off the Federal Helium Reserve, a subterranean treasure in Amarillo, Texas, responsible for supplying up to 30% of the nation’s helium needs. This critical element is indispensable in medical technologies, cryogenics, semiconductors, and even rocket propulsion systems.

Between the ages of 36 and 38, I spent nearly $50,000 to freeze 70 eggs in the hope that they would help me have a family in my mid-40s, when my natural fertility is gone. For this baby insurance, I obliterated my savings and used up the money my parents had set aside for a wedding. It was the best investment I ever made. In RAH's 1963 Novel "Podkayne of Mars", the common ability of a woman to "Freeze" embryos in order to delay childbirth is the starting plot generator.

How long have the frozen turkeys been frozen? I was told by a former grocer that in some cases it is as long as a year.

Ted Williams' frozen head for batting practice at cryogenics lab: book BY Nathaniel Vinton DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Updated Friday, October 2nd 2009, 10:44 AM Head of Ted Williams was abused by employees at Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., whistleblower says. AP Ted Williams, who spent his entire career with the Red Sox, died in 2002 at the age of 83. 'Frozen,' by former Alcor exec Larry Johnson, makes shocking claims about how employees treated Ted Williams' frozen head. Take our PollCryonics: Critical or near-criminal? In "Frozen," Larry Johnson, a former exec at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japanese scientists have cloned mice whose bodies were frozen for as long 16 years and said on Monday it may be possible to use the technique to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species..."There is hope in bringing Ted Williams back, after all," cloning and stem cell expert John Gearhart of the University of Pennsylvania said in an e-mail. The family of Williams, the Boston Red Sox hitter, had his body frozen by cryogenics firm Alcor after he died in 2002..."

Posted on Sun, Sep. 21, 2003 NEW FRONTIERSLab to freeze humans planned in Boca RatonSouth Floridians who seek life after death through cryonics will be preserved at home before being shipped to Arizona.BY ASHLEY FANTZafantz@herald.com Lab to freezehumans may bebuilt in BocaReady or not, the practice of fast-freezing the dead for future ''reanimation'' is coming to South Florida.A company called Suspended Animation, which already has an office in an industrial district of Boca Raton, hopes to build a cryonics lab before the end of the year. It would be the fourth such lab in the country.The unproven science of...

Celebration Includes Parade, Lookalike Contest NEDERLAND, Colo. -- Nederland celebrated the second annual "Frozen Dead Guy Days" over the weekend. For the second year, residents of this town near Boulder honored an 89-year-old Norwegian man who was cryogenically frozen after his death in 1989 and stored in a shed in town. Local officials tried to stop the experiment. But once they figured out there wasn't much they could do, residents decided to make it the focus of a winter festival. Saturday, a slow-moving parade complete with the shed and a grim reaper passed through town. Then, there were coffin races...

The lucky winner of the prize promoting the revamp of New Scientist magazine won't be able to collect the award until death when he or she will be cooled to a temperature at which decay of the body stops and then suspended in liquid nitrogen in a state known as cryonic preservation. "We think that the cryonics promotion is a way of making science interesting to everyone, not just scientists, which is exactly the same message we are trying to communicate about the magazine itself," editor Alun Anderson said in a statement. If and when the medical technology allows, the...

The history of technological innovation is the history of the tortuous paths which advances often take to acceptance. It might seem at first, from the many well-known instances of simultaneous discoveries, that it is the nature of important ideas to spring up newly everywhere, independently, as soon as the world is ripe for them. But this is only the view at first glance. In actuality, the "synchronicity" of discovery usually turns out to be a late phenomenon, one that follows a prodrome in which the "new" idea in question has long been around in some form or another, but steadfastly...

<p>ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Ted Williams signed a pact with two of his children asking to be frozen after his death, according to court documents filed Thursday.</p> <p>Williams' signature, along with those of son John Henry and daughter Claudia, appears at the bottom of a handwritten note dated Nov. 2, 2000 -- more than three years after Williams signed a will requesting to be cremated.</p>

John Henry Williams, left, reportedly wants to freeze the body of his dead father Ted Williams, right, for future cloning purposes. The two are shown here in 1995. Dispute arises over body of Ted Williams Estranged daughter saysson wants to freezeHall of Fame father for cloning NBCSPORTS.COM NEWS SERVICES     July 6 —  A day after the death of baseball great Ted Williams, a dispute has already arisen over what to do with his body, as Williams’ estranged daughter says her half-brother plans to freeze the Hall of Famer’s body — possibly in hopes of selling his DNA...

Daughter says Williams' body is being frozen New York Times News Service Ted Williams' estranged daughter says the baseball great's son plans to freeze the hitter's body in hopes of reviving him in the future -- a decision that she said goes against Williams' wishes to be cremated. Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell, Ted Williams's oldest child, said that Williams' son, John Henry Williams, had approached her last year about possibly freezing the ailing slugger's body at the Arizona-based Alcor Life Extension Foundation, which has frozen 49 bodies. Ferrell's husband, Mark, said John Henry said that Alcor would freeze Williams's head for...